The trailer for Constantine looks pretty good…

The movie Constantine, it’s often said, was an okay horror movie, but it wasn’t a good movie based on the Hellblazer comic. The trailer for NBC’s crack at an ongoing series with the character makes me fairly hopeful:

Is Constantine a Brit of some flavor? Check.
Does he have a trenchcoat? Check.
Self-deprication and one-liners? Check.

I think Supernatural might have a competitor for my eyeballs. It’ll certainly be something I’d watch rather than the upcoming spin-off, Bloodlines*.

* Note: That’s if the Supernatural episode of the same name was basically the pilot episode for a story involving werewolves, vampires, and other monsters having at each other in a riff on the World of Darkness RPG Chicago. There was no chemistry, no breakout actors, nobody you really end up caring about. Bleh.

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Constantine seems a bit… intense. I remember him as being the guy keeping his cool when he wasn’t too scared, but it’s been a while since I read any of the comics, and maybe ‘guy keeping his cool’ isn’t the kind of scenes they’d pick for a trailer. The series certainly looks worth watching.

I really liked the movie “Constantine”. Probably because I had no history with the Hellblazer series. If it was called anything else I think more of the geek world would have liked it. So many good performances and the story was pretty damn good.

That being said this trailer blew me away. I can’t wait for the show. I think NBC might have had a brain transplant.

I forgot to comment on Bloodlines. I think even hardcore Supernatural fans like myself found it a bit bland and covered in CW script notes. It has also not been picked up so all of us are safe from it.